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BumRushDaShow

(156,458 posts)
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 08:22 AM Sunday

Trump faces a revolt from his MAGA base over the Epstein files

Source: NBC News

July 12, 2025, 9:19 PM EDT / Updated July 12, 2025, 11:17 PM EDT


TAMPA, Fla. — On the weekend President Donald Trump decided to pick his biggest political fight to date with the MAGA base he created in his own image, thousands of his adherents were gathered together.

And all they wanted to talk about here at the Student Action Summit hosted by the conservative activist group Turning Point USA was the "Epstein files."

“I think that these people — and I don’t know, for whatever reason, there could be reasons — but I don’t think they’re telling us the truth about Epstein,” podcaster Brandon Tatum told the assembled crowd at the Tampa Convention Center. “I think that that that guy was involved in something nefarious that implicates a whole lot of people. And my guess is that the whole lot of people may have, may happen to be some of our allies and some people that we don’t want to have a bad relationship with.”

Trump pulled the rug out from his base Saturday evening when he released a lengthy social media post that completely dismissed the importance of the issue that has consumed the right for the past week — and longer.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-faces-revolt-maga-base-epstein-files-rcna218385

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drmeow

(5,687 posts)
1. "but I don't think they're telling us the truth about Epstein"
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 09:07 AM
Sunday

Ya think?!?!

"I think that that that guy was involved in something nefarious that implicates a whole lot of people."

Try your fearless leader, you fascist brain dead cultist!

BumRushDaShow

(156,458 posts)
2. The longer this "MAGA in Disarray" keeps going
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 09:18 AM
Sunday

and being covered by the media, the less time the media will have concocting bogus "Democrats in Disarray" stories.

drmeow

(5,687 posts)
3. Also the fresher it will stay
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 09:20 AM
Sunday

in MAGAT's minds and the more it will continue to be a thorn in their side. I'm loving every second of it.

FakeNoose

(37,811 posts)
4. The MAGA cult believes - really! - that Chump is Jesus reincarnated
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 09:24 AM
Sunday

Oh my god, they're in for the biggest disappointment of their lives when the Epstein documents are revealed. Maybe Jack Smith will find a way to leak them? I don't know.

Somebody will leak them, because too many people know or suspect the truth. It's almost at the tipping point now....


BigmanPigman

(53,337 posts)
11. Why doesn't Elon release them himself?
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 06:07 PM
Sunday

He is a human/robot computer and he has all the info already

FakeNoose

(37,811 posts)
16. I don't know, maybe there's nothing in it for him?
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 08:26 PM
Sunday

He's taking orders from Putin now, am I right?

7. The MAGATs will continue to support trump no matter what
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 12:04 PM
Sunday

The slimeball could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue...etc

Prairie Gates

(5,645 posts)
8. The "Epstein Files" are a classic Maguffin...there's no there there, which is what's causing Trump the problem
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 12:36 PM
Sunday

LetMyPeopleVote

(166,210 posts)
9. Why DOJ's withholding of the Epstein files so upsets Trump's base- Roughly a third of MAGA Republicans qualify as QAnon
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 02:14 PM
Sunday

A good percentage of trump supporters are QAnon idiots and Epstein is a big deal to these nutcases.



A lot of you may be mystified as to why DOJ’s withholding of the Epstein files so upsets Trump’s base.

It’s very simple.

👉 Roughly a third of MAGA Republicans qualify as QAnon believers.

👉 QAnon teaches that government, media, and financial elites are Satanists who sex-traffic children.



Cha

(312,968 posts)
13. Mahalo for this info, LMPV.. It explains
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 07:11 PM
Sunday

a lot.. but they must know Traitor is in the file, so basically they're trying to bring him down.

Go QAnon.

Cha

(312,968 posts)
12. This Reaction I do Not understand.. ?
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 07:05 PM
Sunday

The Maga bae is the Cult and they think their leader can do no wrong.. they must know Traitor is in the File..

So why are they trying to bring him Down?

Not complaining. Just Wondering!?

TY, BRDS

BumRushDaShow

(156,458 posts)
15. These are the QAnons among them who are pushing this
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 07:35 PM
Sunday

They were the ones who went after Hillary and Democrats in 2016 with the nonsense about the pedophilia and child sex-trafficking ring insanity (e.g., "pizzagate" ). Now they think their "boss" is "covering it up" by not releasing Epstein's files where there was alleged trafficking going on, and they think 45 has become part of "the deep state".

Cha

(312,968 posts)
18. Thank You! I read LMPV's Post after
Sun Jul 13, 2025, 09:25 PM
Sunday

I asked.

Very informative, too... I never paid any attention to QAnon.. just that they were a part of the Traitor's cult. no idea they cared about something so trumpian as Pedophilia.

Wouldn't that a be an Exacting Karma if they could put a big Crack in the "Consolidating power" movement?

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